If a job offers flextime, it means employees can adapt their work hours to suit their lives. Flextime might allow a dad to come in early and leave in the afternoon to pick up his kids after school.
Flextime is a shortened version of flexible time, a workplace policy that started in the 1970s. Employers typically offer this flexible scheduling to white-collar office workers. Most flextime arrangements require employees to work the same number of hours, but allow them to arrive and leave earlier (or later). For working parents, people who care for elderly family members, or those who want to take an afternoon jiu jitsu class, flextime makes life a little bit easier.